Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-23

this company to do this. The company
had lands to sell. A material increase in the
population and wealth of California would
advance the market value of the company's
lands and increase the amount of travel
and traffic on this roads, and thus add ma
teriaily TO its revenues. The great railroad
corporations, however, which controlled
the connections with the Pacific railroads
easterly from Ogden, had no wish TO build
up California; they had no interest in so
doing. Secure as they deemed, in possess
ing their share of the transcontinental
traffic from ocean to ocean, they were in
different to any advantages which
California might derive from increase
of population. They wished to in
crease the popula ion OF the States and
Territories, whose local business would be
wholly tributary TO their own roads, and
they refused, as | understand, to establish
with the California company any pro rata
tariff of fares which would enable the emil
grant to travel cheaply from the East to
the Pacific; but they did establish rate
OF fares which enabled the emigrant to
travel cheaply to the States and Territories
III which were the termini of their own
ROADS, and such States and Territories, with
soil less fertile than that of California,
and with rigorous climate, increased
rapidly in population and in wealth Most
OF the obstacles l have mentioned to the
material advancement of this State have
been overcome. The residue are rapidly
disappearing.
The Directors of the California Railroad
Company, with the same energy which
characterized the construction of their road
from Sacramento to Ogden, built another
road, independent of Eastern railroad con-
nections, up the San Joaquin valley, across
the Mohave desert, climbing the mountain
through Topped tunnel, passing the beauti-
full City OF the Angels, spanning the rapid
Colorado, up the ella. through the heated
cline of Arizona, down the Rio Grande,
across the plains of Texas and reaching
ports of the Gulf of Mexico, at whose
wharves were sea-going ships, this road
was constructed, and the waters of the
Pacific and the Atlantic were bound to-
gether by lasting ties of steel.
With equal energy and speed the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Com
pany pushed westward its road, until the
orange groves OF San Bernardino and of
Los Angeles, and the port of San Diego,
were reached. Freights and fares were re-
duced. This reduced tariff of freights rem
dered possible the sending of the fruits of
California to Eastern States, and with profit
to the producer. Reduced fares caused
residents of Northern States, who formerly
sojourned in Florida during their rigorous
winter season, to visit California when the
frosts and SHOWS were around their own
Northern homes. These visitors found the
mildness of our winter climate eoualed
that of Florida, while California, in the
salubrity CT its climate and attractive seem
cry, surpassed that land of flowers. Rail
roads have annihj1atol ha OH oolo &c ::
lance; and cheapness of fares that of the
former great expense of immigration to the
Golden State. Many of the former large
land-boldings in Southern California had
been divided up into small tracts and sold,
and the owners of these small tracts had
planted them with vines and fruit trees.
Actual experience showed that few acres
planted to vines and fruit trees Welded
the owner larger net revenue than would
many acres devoted solely to wheat grow
ing. Our Eastern visitors on their return
home gave true reports of the mild
ness and salubrity of our climate, the
attractlveness of our scenery, and of the
productiveness of our soil. The possib;l-
tiles OF California as a great agricultural,
wine and fruit producing State became
known East, and the tide of immigration
of wealthy and energetic farmers swept
over the barriers of intervening space and
reached Southern California. Lands there
appreciated largely in market value; lands
in other portions of the State are showing
like increase. Statistics embraced in the
published reports of this Society show that
the citrus fruits can be grown from the foot
OF Mount Shasta, on the north, to the
southern borders of San Diego, while in
our greater as we'll as in our smaller val
leys on the foothills and on our mountain
ranges. and on the mountain sides them
selves, are grown the table, the wine and
the raisln grape, the prune and the apricot.
the pear and the nectarine, the peach and
the fig, the walnut and the almond. the
plum and the olive, equaling in flavor and
in abundance those produced i'll anv other
climate. Lands valuable for wine
and fruit growing are too valu-
able for grain raising alone, and al
though large and remuneratiye crops
of grain are raised in California, and our
fields of golden wheat are the lust pride of
the State, enhanced value of real estate
is causing owners of large tracts of land in
Central and Northern, as well as in South
ern California, TO divide up their large
land. holdings into smaller tracts, and sell.
ing these smaller tracts to persons seeking
to engage in wine-producing, fruit-growing
and in gardening.
1t is not in agricultural productions alone
that California is now making rapid pro-
greSs. The wages of mechanics are higher
here than in the Eastern States, the cost of
living less. The tariff of freights alone af.
fords to many articles produced by our
manufacturing industries all needed pro-
lection. The car shops of the Central Pa
fic Railroad Company in our capital city
are turning out cars and locomotives equal
to those produced by Eastern manufactures.
Our harvesters, of California invention. and
of California make are the admiration of
Eastern tourists. And the Union Iron
Works of San Francisco have entered into
successful competition with Eastern shin.
building works for the construction of
armored cruisers for the national Govern
ment.
The greatest works of antiquity, the firm
based pyramids of Egypt, tie ma gnifcance
OF kingsSolomon's temple, the colossus of
Rhodes, the walls and hanging gardens of
Babylon, the temples of Brahma in India.
the pantheon of Athens, the coliseum OF
Rome, Tadmor of the desert, the PALMYRA
of Zenobia, all were in mild and genial
climes. And on the western continent.
the mightest and most enduring works of
its ancient people were in the warm eli
mates of Mexico. of Central America and
of Peru. The most vivid imagination will
fail to portray the possibilities of California
in the future. Our chlldrens children's
children, if true to themselves, NAV see
California rivaling in wealth, and in the
magnitude, stability and utility of her
public and private works, the greatest of
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